Volume: CBÉ 0463 (Part 2)

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1. Eviction on Christmas Eve and the Result

   

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   During the Famine, the Landlord _ S__ had an eviction on Christmas Eve on a poor Widow living at Grandlahon.
   O - Y - (Uncle of Y -, who was shot, was Agent to the Landlord S_) travelled to Grandlahon to see that the eviction was carried out. A force of Police were also present at the eviction. The P.P. interfered in the Widow's favour - asking - "that she would be left in the shelter of her house until after Xmas." Y- scoffed at the Priest and ordered the widow's home pulled down - The Priest, sad at heart at seeing the poor Widow on the road, weeping over the ruins of her cabin, turned to Y -. "You can look your last on B- lough as you're passing through it on your way home."
   Before Y- had, on his way home reached B- Lough, he got a stroke

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   Language

   English

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   Handwritten

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   Roman script